Not really sure I want to be on a jet that has plywood window coverings. Probably another one of those Russian deals where the aircraft is in tip top shape on paper.
I believe he means that the drone was getting the exact GPS of the aircraft so it can be shelled by Ukraine or blown up by anti-Russian resistance groups. The fact that it hasn’t been destroyed works against the GPS theory.
This sounds like a pipe dream, but I thought I’d put it here for comment. From the sounds of it, all they have is prototypes at this point.
The armaments group Rheinmetall is negotiating the construction of a tank factory on Ukrainian soil. “A Rheinmetall plant can be built in the Ukraine for around 200 million euros,” company boss Armin Papperger told the Rheinische Post newspaper. It could produce up to 400 Panther-type main battle tanks annually. The talks with the Ukrainian government are »promising«. Papperger hoped for a decision “within the next two months.”
According to the current status, Rheinmetall is making around 250 tanks available in connection with the Ukraine war: “We are working at full speed,” said Papperger. “We have already made more than 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles operational, and by the end of the year there will be around 100. Around 30 tanks are ready out of 50 Leopard 2A4s. There are also around 100 older Leopard 1 models, of which we can currently make 88 usable again.«
Bakhmut is under extreme pressure right now and it looks like Russia might be close to finally capturing the city, at a huge cost to its soldiers lives.
There is street fighting now in parts of the area but the Russians are still not in control. Not much strategic value but costly to take back.
That’s simultaneously the most comical-looking and also the ugliest vehicle I have ever seen. I don’t know if “vehicle” is a term that it deserves, but since it probably more or less moves, at least some of time, I guess we can grant it than moniker.
I doubt it’s worth the cost of firing a missile at it, it looks like the sort of brilliant Russian engineering that will probably just tip over into a ditch all on its own.
Remember that an AWACS-type plane carries a bunch of sensitive electronics. Indeed, that’s the whole purpose of such a plane. You could do what appears to be a superficially very small amount of damage to such a plane, but in a way that leaves it useless for its intended mission, and damage to electronics systems is going to be especially difficult for Russia to repair with their 19th-century industrial base and the sanctions.
Spot on, The ‘hump’ that the drone detonated on is the location of the electronics packages for the AWACS and sat nav. If that stuff was wrecked, that jet will be useless for a long time. That’s a $500 million dollar aircraft, and a good chunk of that is in the electronics.
Yep, then you just rotate your employees. Everyone does a one hour shift on the roof with a shotgun. Actually, I wonder what the civilian firearm market looks like in Russia. Theoretically, could they even produce and sell the number of guns needed?
Looks a wee bit top heavy. Just get them to take a sharp turn and they’ll fall over. I wonder if they took the turret off a currently used ship. This reeks of desperation, but it’s funny too.
